Love at first ride.

It's hard to find something to dislike about the 2016 Pinarello Razha K 105 Complete Road Bike. If you're looking for a responsive carbon frame spec'd with a reliable roundup of moving parts, take a close look at the Razha K's impressive asymmetrical design and loving Pinarello construction and imagine it as your next road companion.

Pro-level frames serve the pros just fine, but everyone winning jerseys understands that frames show their true prowess only under the most capable of engines. That being said, Pinarello equipped the Razha K with everything it needs to excel under the right efforts. Sure, it won't be as genetically blessed as stablemates like the Dogma F8, but it also won't cost you a year's worth of rent — pretty easy to swallow, right? Pinarello used a lower grade carbon fiber to sculpt the tubing of the Razha K compared to its top-shelf offerings, which involves some degree of sacrifice in weight, but not in ride quality or rigidity.

Trickle-down technology is a beautiful thing; now that Pinarello has its asymmetrical design dialed, it passed it on to more entry-level models like the Razha K. That means you'll get the same reinforced drivetrain side, with any bit of unnecessary weight abandoned on the non-drive side. Resist any temptation to back off during descents too; the stiffer front end of the Razha K jumps at the chance to corner aggressively down winding canyon descents. As if all of that didn't promise enough fun, Pinarello spec'd the Razha K with a full Shimano 105 drivetrain. Though 105 sits humbly at the mid-point of Shimano's road drivetrain lineup, it's received enough incremental upgrades over the years to have become better than the drivetrains the pros of the last decade won Grand Tours with.